Actor and television host Montel Williams criticized the statements that Donald Trump put out at the convention of the Black journalists putting Kamala Harris’ ethnicity to question and spouting many more ‘disagreeable’ remarks. Trump said Kamala Harris always claimed to be Indian until she ‘turned’ Black triggering a major backlash.
Montel Williams who briefly dated Kamala Harris in 2001 said it was really ‘weird’ that the man who is considered a racist by his family members has the right to define what blackness is.

The Wednesday interview was hostile with Trump and the Black journalists training their gun at each other. At one point, Trump was asked his opinion on Kamala Harris being a ‘DEI hire’ to which Trump asked the journalist to define ‘DEI’. And then he said he knew Kamala for a very long time, in directly. “She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black, until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black,” Trump said.
“So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black? But you know what, I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she went – she became a Black person,” Trump added.
A major face-off ensues between the MAGA supporters and the Democrats with Kamala Harris’ birth certificate being shared on social media. Old instances of Kamala Harris saying she has Indian origin were reupped on social media in defense of Donald Trump while Democrats asserted that Kamala Harris is both Indian and Black.
During the interview, Donald Trump claimed to have been the best president for the Black — after Abraham Lincoln and later said he crushed the interview in the face of hostile and nasty questions.
Montel stood up for Kamala Harris after an old photo of them went viral with a misleading claim. He said they dated about 20 years ago when both of them were single. “I have great respect for Sen, Harris. I have to wonder if the same stories about her dating history would have been written if she were a male candidate,” he wrote,